"Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber is the second studio album by Australian singer Marina Prior featuring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brian Stacey. It was released in November 1992 and peaked at number 22 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album was certified gold for shipment of 35000 copies. The album is a tribute to the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Prior had starred as Christine Daaé in the original Australian production of Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera"", and had earlier appeared in the original Australian production of ""Cats"". At the ARIA Music"
"Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever is a 2001 box set compilation album of the music of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Released in 2001 and comprising five discs in total, the album's first three discs feature a selection of between three and five tracks from each of Lloyd Webber's musicals to date, roughly in chronological order. The fourth disc, entitled Hits & More, features tracks that were released as singles, and the fifth disc, The Vaults, features obscure and previously unreleased tracks. The discs are contained in a hardback book, with copious notes on"
"Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably ""The Music of the Night"" and ""All I Ask of You"" from ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""I Don't Know How to Love"
"Love Never Dies (musical) Love Never Dies is a romantic musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth and Slater. It is a sequel to the long-running musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and was loosely adapted from Forsyth's novel ""The Phantom of Manhattan"" (1999). The plot is not based on the storyline in the original book by Gaston Leroux. Lloyd Webber stated: ""I don't regard this as a sequel—it's a stand-alone piece."" He later clarified: ""Clearly, it is a sequel, but I really do not believe"
"original ""Phantom of the Opera"": ""As sequel and original are erected on such different imaginative premises they cannot both be true"". Love Never Dies (musical) Love Never Dies is a romantic musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth and Slater. It is a sequel to the long-running musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and was loosely adapted from Forsyth's novel ""The Phantom of Manhattan"" (1999). The plot is not based on the storyline in the original book by Gaston Leroux. Lloyd Webber stated: ""I don't regard"
"with ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", to be ""at the summit of Lloyd Webber's achievement"", Chandler considers ""Love Never Dies"" ""badly judged"" and ""one of the oddest sequels in theatrical history, shaped by a peculiar love-hate relationship to its original. On one hand it shores up the position ""The Phantom of the Opera"" occupies as Lloyd Webber's central, defining musical; on the other it seems intent, in a rather Freudian way, on displacement, on destroying the authority of the earlier work"". Chandler takes issue with the incompatibility of the plot and character motivations expressed in ""Love Never Dies"" ""vis-à-vis"" those in the"
"would be viable to bring the show to Broadway. It received positive reviews and was No.1 on DVD charts in the UK and Ireland, and did well in America. Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits"
"Sydmonton Festival. Lloyd Webber received a Grammy Award in 1986 for ""Requiem"" in the category of best classical composition. ""Pie Jesu"" from Requiem achieved a high placing on the UK pop charts. Perhaps because of its large orchestration, live performances of the Requiem are rare. ""Cricket"" (1986), also called ""Cricket (Hearts and Wickets)"", reunited Lloyd Webber with Tim Rice to create this short musical for Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday, first performed at Windsor Castle. Several of the tunes were later used for ""Aspects of Love"" and ""Sunset Boulevard"". Lloyd Webber also premiered ""The Phantom of the Opera"" in 1986, inspired"
"Nick Lloyd Webber Nicholas Lloyd Webber (born July 22, 1979) is an English composer and music producer. He is known for scoring the BBC 1 drama Love, Lies and Records, co-writing (with James D. Reid) the symphonic piece The Little Prince based on the book by Antoine de St. Exupery and also his 2017 musical, ""Fat Friends: The Musical"" which premiered at the Grand Theatre in Leeds and subsequently toured the UK in 2018. He has also written music for numerous television ad campaigns. ""A Spoonful of Sherman"" (Double CD) (2015) Webber is the eldest son of iconic British composer,"
"musicals and adding new orchestrations and hit songs from other shows was challenged and has led to a proliferation of organizations that present classic American musicals with their original scores restored as written, though these performances are generally in a semi-staged format. Andrew Lloyd Webber attended a performance of ""La bohème"" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the winter of 1984 that was conducted by Mauceri and as a result invited him to be the musical supervisor of the Broadway production of his ""Song and Dance"", which opened on September 18, 1985, and received eight Tony Award nominations,"
"to represent Britain, winning with It's My Time, by Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren. At the contest, Lloyd Webber accompanied her on the piano during the performance. The United Kingdom finished 5th in the contest. The winner was Norway's Alexander Rybak with his composition ""Fairytale"". On 8 October 2009, Lloyd Webber launched the musical ""Love Never Dies"" at a press conference held at Her Majesty's Theatre, where the original ""Phantom"" has been running since 1986. Also present were Sierra Boggess, who had been cast as Christine Daaé, and Ramin Karimloo, who portrayed Phantom, a role he had recently played in"
"the early Broadway appearances of actress Glenn Close, her first in a musical. Until the Canadian premiere of ""Rex"" in 2010, this show was the only Richard Rodgers work since the 1940s not available for performance from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization. Clive Barnes, reviewing for ""The New York Times"", wrote that it was ""one of the most interminable musicals in years."" Andrew Lloyd Webber persuaded his then-wife, Sarah Brightman to record the ballad ""Away From You"", the only song from the musical that has been separately released. Years after the show closed, and after Rodgers's death, Sheldon Harnick and"
"of the musical ""Cats"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year. Eliot regarded ""Four Quartets"" as his masterpiece, and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: ""Burnt Norton"" (1936), ""East Coker"" (1940), ""The Dry Salvages"" (1941) and ""Little Gidding"" (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, each poem includes meditations on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition."
"With her husband Raoul and son Gustave in tow, she journeys to Brooklyn, unaware that it is actually ""The Phantom"" who has arranged her appearance in the popular beach resort. Although Lloyd Webber began working on ""Love Never Dies"" in 1990, it was not until 2007 that he began writing the music. The show opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End on 9 March 2010, with previews from 22 February 2010. It was originally directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, but the show closed for four days in November 2010 for substantial re-writes, which were"
"a rare-breed Turkish Van, climbed onto Lloyd Webber's Clavinova digital piano and managed to delete the entire score. Lloyd Webber was unable to recover any of it from the instrument, but was eventually able to reconstruct the score. In 2008, Lloyd Webber first announced that the sequel would likely be called ""Phantom: Once Upon Another Time"", and the first act was performed at his annual Sydmonton Festival. The Phantom was played by Ramin Karimloo and Raoul was played by Alistair Robbins. However, in September 2008, during the BBC's ""Birthday in the Park"" concert celebrating his 60th birthday, Lloyd Webber announced"
"financially successful entertainment event until ""The Lion King"" surpassed it in 2014. By 2011, it had been seen by over 130 million people in 145 cities across 27 countries, and continues to play in London and New York. In 1984, Lloyd Webber contacted Cameron Mackintosh, the co-producer of ""Cats"" and ""Song and Dance"", to propose a new musical. He was aiming for a romantic piece, and suggested Gaston Leroux's book ""The Phantom of the Opera"" as a basis. They screened both the 1925 Lon Chaney and the 1943 Claude Rains motion picture versions, but neither saw any effective way to"
"at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in April 2008. Having achieved great popular success in musical theatre, Lloyd Webber was referred to by ""The New York Times"" in 2001 as ""the most commercially successful composer in history."" In 2002 he turned producer, bringing the musical ""Bombay Dreams"" to London. With music by Indian Music composer A.R. Rahman and lyrics by Don Black, it ran for two years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. A revised Broadway production at the Broadway Theatre two years later ran for only 284 performances. On 16 September 2004, his production of ""The Woman in White"""
"casting of Boggess as Christine and Karimloo as the Phantom. Karimloo sang ""Til I Hear You Sing"" and the instrumental ""The Coney Island Waltz"" was performed by an orchestra for the journalists, industry insiders, and fans who had assembled for the presentation. Lloyd Webber announced that ""Love Never Dies"" would begin previews in London on 20 February 2010 and anticipated that the Broadway production would open on 11 November 2010 (this was later postponed and then indefinitely and to date has never come to fruition). Rehearsals began in January 2010. As with ""Phantom"", Lloyd Webber's score for ""Love Never Dies"""
"Company and lease the Old Vic theatre. The Company remained at the Old Vic until 1976, when the new South Bank building was opened. A National Theatre of Scotland was set up in 2006. Today the West End of London has many theatres, particularly centred on Shaftesbury Avenue. A prolific composer of musical theatre in the 20th century, Andrew Lloyd Webber has been referred to as ""the most commercially successful composer in history"". His musicals, which include ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Cats"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" and ""Evita"", have dominated the West End for a number of years and have"
"Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948) and Sarah Hugill. He is the grandson of William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) who was also a noted composer. Webber's uncle is Julian Lloyd Webber (born 1951), a noted cellist and conductor. He married his partner, Polly Wiltshire, in June 2018. Nick Lloyd Webber Nicholas Lloyd Webber (born July 22, 1979) is an English composer and music producer. He is known for scoring the BBC 1 drama Love, Lies and Records, co-writing (with James D. Reid) the symphonic piece The Little Prince based on the book by Antoine de St. Exupery and also his 2017"
"Douglas Furber Douglas Furber (13 May 1885 – 20 February 1961) was a British lyricist and playwright. Furber is best known for the lyrics to the 1937 song ""The Lambeth Walk"" and the libretto to the musical ""Me and My Girl"", composed by Noel Gay, from which it came. This show made broadcasting history when in 1939 it became the first full length musical to be broadcast on television. A 1986 revival went on to achieve great acclaim, and was nominated for Tony Awards for both Best Score and Best Book. Furber made his first entry into songwriting with the"
"""Front Row"" and ""The World Tonight"". In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin, and Richard Hickox. In September 2014, the charity Live Music Now announced Lloyd Webber as its next public spokesman. On 28 April 2014, he announced his retirement from public performance as a cellist because of a herniated disc in his neck. His final public performance as a cellist was on 2 May 2014 at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, with the English Chamber Orchestra when he played the Barjansky Stradivarius cello (dated c. 1690) which"
"Lloyd Webber's fiftieth birthday which was later released on video and DVD. Elaine Paige performed it during a concert produced by The Really Useful Group in Beijing in 2001, which was also released on DVD. Lloyd Webber used the tune a third time for the song ""Love Never Dies"" from the 2010 musical of the same name, which finally served as a sequel to ""Phantom"". In 2000, Telstar Records released ""Our Kind of Love"" performed by Hannah Waddingham, credited on the recordings simply as Hannah. The singles featured tracks from the cast recording of the original London production of ""The"
"Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, ""Love Never Dies"", which closed on Saturday 27 August 2011. The National Theatre transferred their show ""One Man, Two Guvnors"" to the theatre from 8 November 2011. This production moved out of the theatre on 25 February 2012, transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. ""Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"" began a limited season at the Adelphi from 10 March to 22 September 2012, transferring from the Chichester Festival Theatre, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. The theatre is currently owned and managed by the Adelphi Theatre Company Limited, a partnership between Andrew"
"musical ""Sunset Boulevard"", a stage version of 1950 film of the same name. The composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber cast Dunaway in the famed role of Norma Desmond, and Dunaway began rehearsing to take over the LA engagement from Close when Close moved the show to Broadway. Tickets went on sale for Dunaway's engagement, but shortly after the rehearsals started, Webber and his associates announced that Dunaway was unable to sing to their desired standards. They announced that when Close finished her engagement, the show would shut down completely. Dunaway filed a lawsuit, claiming that Webber had damaged her"
"tune for ITV's long-running ""South Bank Show"" throughout its 32-year run. The same year, Lloyd Webber also composed a new theme tune for the long-running documentary series ""Whicker's World"", which was used from 1978 to 1980. Lloyd Webber was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in November 1980 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the foyer of Thames Television's Euston Road Studios. He would be honoured a second time by the television programme in November 1994 when Michael Aspel surprised him at the Adelphi Theatre. Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead"
"Starlight Express Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Richard Stilgoe (lyrics). Later productions have used additional songs with lyrics by Don Black, David Yazbek, Nick Coler and Lauren Aquilina, and with music by the composer's son, Alastair Lloyd Webber. Famously, the actors perform the entire show on roller skates. The West End production of ""Starlight Express"" is the eighth longest-running musical in history, having been performed 7,409 times between 1984 and 2002. ""Starlight Express"" is also the most successful musical in Germany, where it has been performed in a purpose-built theatre since 1988. According"
"and penitence, Joseph reveals himself (""Joseph All the Time"") and sends for his father. The two are reunited (""Jacob in Egypt"") for a happy conclusion and Joseph dons his coloured coat once more (""Any Dream Will Do (Reprise)/Give Me My Coloured Coat""). In some productions, the finale is followed by a rock/disco medley of most of the musical's major numbers (""Joseph Megamix""). The 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was contacted by the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice in 1965, and they created their first musical, ""The Likes of Us"". They produced a demo tape of that work"
"February 1985 in St. Thomas Church, New York; the conductor was Lorin Maazel, and the three soloists were Plácido Domingo, Sarah Brightman (Lloyd Webber's wife at the time), and Paul Miles-Kingston. ""Requiem"" won the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. The most popular segment of ""Requiem"" has been the Pie Jesu, which became a hit single and has been recorded by numerous artists. On 20 July 2013, Lorin Maazel revisited ""Requiem"" at The Castleton Festival. Featured performers were soprano Joyce El-Khoury, tenor Tyler Nelson, and treble Tommy Richman. The best-known part of Lloyd Webber's ""Requiem"", the ""Pie Jesu"""
"""Cox and Box"" and ""Thespis"". In 1993, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group purchased the theatre and completely refurbished it prior to the opening of his adaptation of ""Sunset Boulevard"". The 1998 video of Lloyd Webber's musical ""Cats"" was filmed at the theatre. In November 1997, the London production of the popular American musical ""Chicago"" premiered at the Adelphi, becoming the venue's longest-ever production during its eight-and-a-half-year run (which also made it the longest running American musical in West End history). In April 2006, ""Chicago"" transferred to the Cambridge Theatre (and later to the Garrick Theatre, where it closed in"
"musicals including ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and ""Song and Dance"", as well as the mass Requiem, which was written and composed for Lloyd Webber's father. In 1985, Brightman's recording of ""Pie Jesu"" was a strong commercial success, selling 25,000 copies on the first day of release and peaking at number 3, despite the lyrics being in Latin. With classical music permeating the Lloyd Webber household (Brightman was in heavy operatic training at the time), Lloyd Webber was moved to write the Requiem Mass as a tribute to his father. Its Manhattan premiere, starring Plácido Domingo and Brightman, was filmed"
"Blood"". He has also composed the lyrics and co-wrote the book for the major Andrew Lloyd Webber musical ""Love Never Dies"", which is a sequel to Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical ""The Phantom of the Opera"". The show premiered in the West End in March 2010. Adding to his career as a lyricist, Slater wrote the lyrics for the songs in Disney's 50th animated feature ""Tangled"". In 2015 he worked again with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Broadway musical ""School of Rock"" and continued his working relationship with Alan Menken writing lyrics for the songs of ""Galavant"" on ABC. Slater attended"
"the United States and the fact that the American subject matter fitted Broadway. Webber also credits various locations of the original School of Rock that ""...produce the sort of kids required who can actually perform in the show"" and that Britain would need similar schools for the show to move to London. Despite this, Lloyd Webber later revealed that he was able to open the subsequent London production several months earlier than anticipated due to finding the child musician actors easily. On 18 December 2014, an official announcement was made of the musical, with a world premiere on Broadway to"